Sandy is coming!!!!

[20kidsonhill]

I thought we should start a thread about the weather getting ready to hit the East coast. We are in the Valley in VA, and there is not enough information yet, but they are saying it could be terrible with inches and inches of rain, maybe even ice and snow, or hardly nothing at all. We are expected to start getting some rain on Monday into Tuesday from the system.

We are preparing by getting the shelters more secured for the wind, some of our goats are in polydome nursery huts for shelter. We are not in a flood zone. Our biggest concern will be keepign the does warm and dry and fed. And we loose our power easily, so we will be filling up our gas cans and vehicles so we have plenty of gas for our generator.

What are you all doing to get ready.

and as you are impacted by the storm, please share your photos and stories here.

 

[ksalvagno]

Luckily in Ohio we are just expecting windy conditions and some rain possibly mixed with snow. I had already taken care of getting my barn ready for winter since I have kids being born in about a week and wanted to be sure there were no drafts. Hopefully it won't be as bad as they are predicting.

 

[Alice Acres]

Take care, coastal people! Hope it stays out in the Atlantic as much as possible.

Here in Minnesota - no effect. It was 32F this morning when I was out...and supposed to be colder tomorrow. Not really too new, as we have been in the 20's several mornings already the last few weeks.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

I'm on the Delmarva Penninsula and it looks like it may head right for us. I really don't want all that rain. We're going to be making sure we have enough water stored. I'll move a lot of hay into the barn (I have a roundbale out under a tarp right now) to keep it dry. May put a tarp around the rabbit frame (where the cages hang), and I'm going to try to get the sides back on the sheep/goat shelter (they're off for summer) before then. If it is supposed to get too bad, I'll cram all the sheep and goats into the barn for a couple days so I won't have to go out and feed them in the weather. Well, I'll still have to walk to the barn, but I can handle that.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

I hope and pray all in the path stay safe.

 

[Southern by choice]

I don't want Sandy to hit the way they expect but....

I have family in the north and I think a bunch of them are going to head down my way! sooo...



Every time we make the offer they say "nah it won't be too bad", then they have no power, snowed in etc for7-10 days.
They are all city folk so they go mad stayin' in!

 

[Bridgemoof]

We are in Northern Virginia and if it hits as expected we will get blasted for sure. Today we put an extra tarp over the sheep shelter. Tomorrow we have to bring the goats up from the creek for sure! Tim may be building a shelter for them as well. We are going to get out some extra water troughs and fill them. After the last disaster, the storm that hit in July with temps in the high 90s, we had no power and no water for FIVE days! That was awful. Everybody else has shelter, all the horses, other sheep and goats up at the barn, chickens, etc. I worry most about wind and flying tree branches and lightning. Eeeek!

As I am writing this, Tim just saw a posting on Craiglist...Horse Evacuation Boarding. Someone locally is leasing out stalls for horses for $40 PER DAY if they need emergency boarding. Talk about capitalizing on SANDY.

 

[20kidsonhill]

If anyone needs to relocate and is willing to come as far as the valley in VA, we are able to provide some boarding of goats/sheep and we wont capatalize, it is for free.

Bridgemoof: We got slammed by that July storm as well. We lost 15 trees on our 6 acres and had no power for 4 days. We had fence lines down everywhere. I had the stomach flu Thursday into Friday and then spent Friday night up dealing with the storm and Saturday and Sunday picking up branches and cherrry tree limbs, fixing fence lines in 90 plus degree temps. We did have a small generator to pump water and run a fan in the house and a fridgerator and a light bulb. and we were able to go into town for supplies. We still have several trees down from that storm that we are planning on cleaning up this fall and winter. Might have a couple more after this week.

 

[Cricket]

In northern Vermont, we're getting high wind warnings and will probably lose power, but they seem to be backing off on the rain. Irene was enough for a few years! We have a gravity feed spring, so we have water even with no power. We limped along for a few months with this summer's drought and everyone thought we were nuts for not drilling a well. It's worth it at times like this! My husband's welder acts as a generator and he has put it on a small trailer. Good luck to everyone on the coast!

I can't imagine charging someone in need 40. a day for boarding a horse!

 

[Royd Wood]

We hve been warned to expect no power and trees down - yes in Canada - Southern Ontario. They are saying the hurricane is going to clash with an Alberta clipper and turn into Frankinstorm. We are so not ready for this as we have just had 30 hours of torrential rain from the Alberta Clipper which is on its way to New York and clash with Sandy then come back.
Pulled all the piglets from the woods today and got the christmas turkeys up from the pasture which was flooded, cattle are back up at the farm and will pull the sheep tomorrow.

Good luck everyone and be careful out there